CONTENTS
Necsem 2000 Meeting
Necsem On The WWW
Koetting Prize
Internet Resources
American Gamelan Institute
Brown University
The Center For Field Research At Earthwatch Institute
Eastern Connecticut State University
MIT
Northeastern University
Skidmore College
Smith College
Trinity College
Tufts University
Wesleyan University
Wheaton College
Positions Available
Necsem Officers
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NECSEM 2000 MEETING
The Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology will hold its annual meeting on Saturday, March 4th at Tufts University, Alumnae Hall, Talbot Avenue, Medford, Massachusetts, from 9:00 AM.

Koetting Prize guidelines are given below. In addition to papers and discussion, there will be two performances in conjunction with this year's meeting:

THE BOSTON VILLAGE GAMELAN
Sumarsam, Guest Artist
Barry Drummond, Artistic Director
The BVG invites you to a concert of traditional Javanese Gamelan music Saturday, March 4th, 4:30 - 5:30pm, in the Alumnae lounge of the Aidekman arts center, Tufts University. Admission is free.

The Boston Village Gamelan (BVG) was formed in 1979 by Sam Quigley and Alan Robinson, graduates of Wesleyan University. Over the years, the ensemble has attracted musicians from other gamelan programs and performed regularly throughout New England. At the invitation of the Indonesian government, the BVG performed at Expo '86 in Vancouver, Canada. Among the BVG's recent activities were performances in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. For more information, view the website HERE .

The BVG has an upcoming concert, Sunday, April 30th, 8:00pm at Alumnae Lounge, Tufts University. Gamelan at Tufts University consists of both ensemble courses in Javanese music and the residency of the Boston Village Gamelan. Rehearsals are open to the public and new participants are encouraged. Members of the Tufts community or the public-at-large who are interested in further information should contact Barry Drummond at 617-547-3395 or EMAIL.

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NECSEM ON THE WWW
Our Chapter now has a website, edited and maintained by Timothy Griffin.

A schedule of papers for the 2000 conference can be found HERE.
The past several newsletters are also available HERE.

1999 KOETTING PRIZE
Judith Casselberry of Wesleyan University won the Koetting Prize for her paper, entitled "The Living Dead and Spirits: Inspiration and Guidance for Black Women in Popular American Music," read at the meeting last year. Congratulations!

2000 KOETTING PRIZE GUIDELINES
According to chapter guidelines, any student wishing to have their paper considered for the James T. Koetting Prize (awarded for the outstanding graduate student paper presented at the chapter meeting) must submit four copies of their paper to the NECSEM President at the meeting on March 4 (the ideal time for submission would be during the registration period in the morning, right before the meeting begins).
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INTERNET RESOURCES
To subscribe to the SEM discussion list (sem-l), address an e-mail message to: <listserv@listserv.indiana.edu>. Leave the subject field blank. The body of the message must read: SUBSCRIBE SEM-L yourfirstname yourlastname.

The Society for Ethnomusicology
International Council for Traditional Music
The Center for Field Research at Earthwatch Institute
American Gamelan Institute
Ethnomusicology Online (EOL): Free, peer-reviewed, multimedia Web journal.
The American Folklife Center

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AMERICAN GAMELAN INSTITUTE
August 1999 saw the launching of GONGCAST, an ongoing web broadcast of all forms of gamelan music, Indonesian music, and related sounds from around the world.

The curators for GONGCAST are Jody Diamond (USA), Sapto Raharjo (INDONESIA) and I Nyoman Wenten (INDONESIA/USA). Each curator contributes recorded shows and music, as well as suggestions for broadcast. The program is hosted by Jody Diamond, with technical assistance from Tom Erbe.

Some of the programs are drawn from commericially available recordings. Others are from the Archives of the American Gamelan Institute, or personal recordings from groups and individuals. Jody says, "I find this an exciting use of the Internet to increase the presence and awareness of Indonesian music and its international counterparts to a wide audience."
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BROWN UNIVERSITY
In April 1999 Brown University received delivery of a Javanese gamelan, a full slendro/pelog set named _Sekar Setaman_, "flowers of many kinds" (literally, a garden of flowers). It was made by the Solonese gongsmith Tentrem Sarwanto in 1997-98 specially for Brown University, and bears the University's emblem on its _gayor_ (the dragon-shaped ornament on the crossbeam of the gong-stand). Its name can be symbolically interpreted to refer to the harmonious coexistence of different people and different opinions in tolerance and unity.

Since September 1999 I. M. Harjito and Marc Perlman have taught Brown undergraduate and graduate students, staging a concert on 7 December 1999. We accompanied the dancer Sukarji Sriman and presented several traditional instrumental compositions, assisted by Deni Harjito, Barry Drummond of the Boston Village Gamelan, and Marzanna Poplawska and Kelly Boyle of Wesleyan University. With the good wishes of the New England ethnomusicology community and gamelan lovers everywhere we hope to nourish a thriving program in Javanese music performance here in Rhode Island. ______________________________________________________

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THE CENTER FOR FIELD RESEARCH AT EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE
Call for Proposals: Private Grants for Field Research in Ethnomusicology

The Center for Field Research (CFR) invites proposals for field research in ethnomusicology. CFR is the program development arm of Earthwatch Institute, a private, nonprofit organization established in 1973 to promote significant scholarship and to improve communication between scholars and the public through participant funding.

All field grant awards are derived from funds contributed by volunteer participants on the research team who are members of Earthwatch. These volunteers arequalified non-specialists, recruited and screened according to researchers' needs. To date, Earthwatch Institute has supported over 1,000 research expeditions in 118 countries with more than 50,000 volunteers contributing $37 million to scholarship. Examples of projects funded to date have used volunteers to:

• explore the rhythmic tradition of northern Ghanaian music;
  
• record oral histories of jazz musicians in New York City for inclusion in the Oral History of Music in America archives;
  
• record drumming styles and techniques in Senegal and The Gambia;
  
• record traditional Irish dance tunes;
  
• chronicle Balinese gamelan-smithing practices;
  
• document fiddling techniques and collect fiddlers' oral histories on Prince Edward Island;
  
• record traditional Vietnamese music and performance; and
  
• observe and document performances of Theravada Buddhist music to investigate local concepts of musical and spiritual expression in China.

Grants average $20,000 per year, and projects average 3 years of support. A typical project would employ 4 to 8 volunteers each on 3 to 5 sequential teams. Teams normally spend two weeks in the field. Shorter and longer teams are encouraged where appropriate as are larger or smaller teams. Preliminary proposals should be submitted at least thirteen months in advance of anticipated field dates. Full proposals are invited upon review of preliminary materials and will undergo a peer review process. Proposals are accepted and reviewed year round.

For more information, or to discuss your research goals and their appropriateness for Earthwatch funding, please contact Creighton Peet, Program Director for Social Sciences, at the Center. The Center is a nonprofit organization that reviews and recommends field research projects for support by Earthwatch.

The Center for Field Research
3 Clock Tower Place, Suite 100
Box 75
Maynard, MA 01754
Phone: 978-461-0081
Fax: 978-461-2332
EMAIL

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EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
Okon Hwang (Associate Professor of Music at Eastern Connecticut State University) conducted a fieldwork on Western Classical Music in Korea as a recipient of the Connecticut State University Research Grant and the Visiting Research Fellowship at the Academy of Korean Studies in Korea during the summer and the fall of 1999.
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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
MITHAS Spring Concerts 2000
Massachussets Institute of Technology Heritage of the Arts of South Asia

Feb 18 - 8 pm, Fri., Little Kresge Auditorium, $5 students, $8 general
Student Dance Recital Rajul Shah, Odissi; Pallabi Sanyal, Kuchipudi;
Sunanda Narayanan, Leena Kadakia, Sripriya Natarajan, and Sumati Ram-Mohan,
Bharatanatyam with Deepa Parvathaneni, Narrator

Tickets for the following concerts are $15 general, $12 members and
students. Tickets to all concerts are at the door only.

Mar 3 - 8 pm, Fri, Killian Hall
Ken Zuckerman, sarod, Anindo Chatterjee, tabla

Mar 12 - 4 pm, Sun., Wong Auditorium
R. Jayanthi, veena, Lalgudi Rajalakshmi, violin, Arjun Kumar, mridangam

Apr 16 - 4 pm, Sun., Wong Auditorium
Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan, vocal, Trivandrum S. Harikuma, violin, Trivandrum G. Vaidyanathan, mridangam

Apr 30 - 4 pm, Sun., Wong Auditorium
Sanjay Subramanian, vocal, S. Varadarajan, violin, Sreemushnam Rajarao, mridangam

May 7 - 4 pm, Sun., Wong Auditorium
R.N. Thyagarajan & R.N. Tharanathan (Rudrapatnam Brothers), vocal, R.K. Shriramkumar, violin, Bombay Balaji, mridangam

May 19 - 8 pm, Fri., Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
Ali Akbar Khan, sarod, Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla, Tickets $50-40-30-20 (students $18)
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NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Susan Asai's book "Nomai Dance Drama: A Surviving Spirit of Medieval Japan" is now available for sale through Greenwood Publishing Group in Westport, Connecticut. If you are interested in this volume, you might ask your library to purchase it since it is only available in hardcover for $65.00. Please e-mail the author at sasai@lynx.neu.edu for more information. A roughly edited video recording of the four different music and dance styles of this masked dance drama is also available, separately, through her also. Asai received tenure and promotion at Northeastern University last June.

Asai also has a NECSEM concern: "I am interested in establishing a mentoring system for junior women faculty who will face the uphill battle of attaining tenure and promotion at their institution. I am willing to serve as the point person for at least initiating this "new girl network," in contrast to the "old boy network," by holding an informal mentoring session at the annual NECSEM meetings. This network will require a number of advisors who would be willing to brainstorm or offer strategies to mentees about how to deal with the political climate at a school, as well as meet the standards set by colleagues, deans, and provosts. Anyone interested in this network please contact Susan Asai at sasai@lynx.neu.edu., or talk to me at the upcoming meeting."
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SKIDMORE COLLEGE
Skidmore College is now accepting applications for a one-year sabbatical replacement as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music beginning the 1 September 2000. The Department seeks an ethnomusicologist who teaches areas other than South Asia and popular music. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. The Department should receive applications by 15 March 2000 to ensure full consideration. Send a resume, a letter detailing teaching and research interests, syllabi, and three letters of recommendation to Gordon Thompson, Chair
Department of Music
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.
Fax: 518-580-5340 (attn: Gordon Thompson).
For questions phone 518-580-5322 or send email to gthompso@skidmore.edu.
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SMITH COLLEGE
Upcoming events at Smith:

April 6: Jin Hi Kim. Komunggo lecture demonstration. Earle Recital Hall, Smith College, 12 noon. Free and open to the public.

April 26: Smith College Gamelan ensemble presents a dance drama "The Death of Menakjingga," featuring Sukarji Sriman (MFA student at Smith) and Urip Sri Maeny (instructor of Javanese dance at Wesleyan and Smith). Sweeney Concert Hall, 8 pm. Free and open to the public.
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TRINITY COLLEGE
Ritmo de Pueblo Festival of Puerto Rican Music and Art, Feb. 4-5, 2000.

This 2-day festival was sponsored by Trinity College and various Hartford community organizations, organized by members of the college (faculty, administration and students) and the community. Featured artists included Los Pleneros de la 21 and the Cuatro Project, starring Yomo Toro, Alvin Medina, and the
Orquesta Jibara Antigua. Evening concerts were complemented by day-time workshops, a photo exhibition, and film screenings, including the recently completed film "Nuestro Cuatro", by the Cuatro Project. A documentary film about the Ritmo de Pueblo festival is in the works, centering on the landmark collaboration between Trinity College and the Hartford Hispanic community.

Lise Waxer is currently working on a book manuscript based on her research on the social history of salsa in Cali, Colombia, and is editing a volume of scholarly essays on salsa from a global perspective. She is also making preliminary arrangements to go back to Colombia to conduct field researchon currulao and Afro-Colombian identity in about a year or so, and would be grateful to hear from anyone with leads about other currulao research and researchers, etc.
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TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Abubakari Lunna, expert on the performing arts of the Dagomba people of northern Ghana, will once again be visiting David Locke in Boston. Mr. Lunna will consult with David on their mutual research projects that center on documenting the music-culture of the Dagomba. He also will perform with David's students from Tufts (March 15, 2000, is the big show) and with the jazz fusion group Natraj (at Tufts on February 24th).

David Locke has submitted a shortened version of his chapter of music-cultures of Africa for an upcoming edition of Worlds of Music and was a respondent on a panel at the recent SEM Annual Meeting that considered world music performing ensembles within the academy. He will complete six years of service as chair of Tufts' Department of Music at the end of this semester and looks forward to focusing more on teaching and the creation of knowledge (research, writing, and performance).

In 2000 Tomie Hahn will present her current work on Japanese traditional dance and music, interactive electronic arts, and Monster Truck rallies at: the Toronto 2000 megaconference on an interdisciplinary panel she is co-chairing with Bonnie Gordon entitled "The sense of soundimagining music and sensuality"; at Sound Escapes--the Conference on Acoustic Ecology in Toronto; and the Performance Studies International conference in Arizona. Her collaboration with composer Curtis Bahn on an interactive performance piece utilizing physical data sensors will be performed at Mobius on March 3 and 4 (Boston); at NYU in April; and at Sound Escapes in Toronto in July. Tomie continues her research on issues of identity and creative expression of multi-racial individuals, through interviews with performers, visual artists, and writers.

Jeffrey Summit is teaching an ethnomusicology course this semester at Tufts on "Music and Prayer in the Jewish Tradition." He is continuing his research on the role of computers in teaching the cantillation of the Torah and the effect of technology on the transmission of Jewish oral tradition.

The Tufts Javanese Ensemble will perform a joint concert with the Boston Village Gamelan on Sunday, April 30, 8:00pm at Alumnae Lounge, Tufts University. Both ensembles are directed by Barry Drummond. Special guest artists will include I.M. Harjito, Artist-in-Residence at Wesleyan University.

Festival of Black Music
Tufts University is having a Festival of Black Music in honor of black history month. All concerts are free. The music ranges from Afro-Latin to Southern Blues. Here is the schedule and additional information about
performers, from Lisa Lindo, assistant publicist, Tufts University Music Department.

Black History Month 2000
You are cordially invited to celebrate BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2000 with the Tufts Music Department. Come out and enjoy the many musical treats celebrating African and African descendants all over the world: from Cuba to West Africa to the Mississippi Delta. It is sure to be a month of toe-tappin', knee-slappin', hand-clappin' musical enjoyment!

FOLK MUSIC
WHEN: Friday, January 28th, 8 PM
WHAT: The Morris - Sanvik Duo. This unique vocal, guitar duo creates improvisations on ancient folk themes from the black south. The program includes "surge" style hymns, spirituals, hollers and blues.
WHERE: Alumnae Hall, Talbot Ave., Tufts University, Medford.

AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ
WHEN: Friday, February 4th, 7 PM
WHAT: Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble featuring Tufts faculty member Joel LaRue Smith. He will perform with an Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble taking its inspiration from African- influenced Caribbean music fused with Jazz. The performance will interweave Cuban mambos, rumbas, cha-chas, and toured boleros with Danzas from Puerto Rico and North American Jazz standards. This is a musical journey through the rituals and spirits that the Africans brought with them to the Americas and the Caribbean. This music is the search for ones dance. Joel and the members of the ensemble have performed with many great Jazz, Latin Jazz and Salsa Luminaries such as Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Mario Bauza, Woody Shaw, Kenny Burrell and Eddie Palmieri. A MUST SEE!
WHERE: Alumnae Hall, Talbot Ave., Tufts University, Medford.

JAZZ
WHEN: Saturday, February 12th 8 PM
WHAT: Tiger's Baku. Tufts Jazz Faculty Recital featuring world-renowned trumpeter Tiger Okoshi, and his small jazz ensemble. Mr. Okoshi has toured with the Buddy Rich Orchestra, Gary Burton, and with his own fusion group, "Tiger's Baku". He has released 8 CDs of his own and performed on many others. He also teaches at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
WHERE: Alumnae Hall, Talbot Ave., Tufts University, Medford.
INFO: Free. Accessible. 617-627-3564

WORLD MUSIC
WHEN: Thursday, February 24th, 8 PM
WHAT: NATRAJ. African grooves and Indian ragas merge in the band's expansive jazz conception and disciplined ensemble playing. They have toured clubs and concert halls throughout the U.S., Canada, India and West Africa since 1987. The ensemble features Phil Scarf on soprano saxophone, violinist Matt Maneri, bassist Michael Rivard, percussionist Jerry Leake and drummer Bertram Lehman. Master drummer Abubakari Lunna and Tufts' own West African drummer David Locke joins Natraj in this concert.
WHERE: Goddard Chapel, Tufts University, Medford.

WHEN: Friday, February 25th, 8 PM
WHAT: Take Part Take Pride. Annual musical celebration of Tufts ensembles honoring African American History Month. Performers include Essence, Kiniwe, and the Third Day Gospel Choir is lead by Jerome Kyles, David Locke directs Kiniwe; the and Essence is a sublime student a cappella group.
WHERE: Cohen Auditorium, Talbot Ave., Tufts University, Medford.

CLASSICAL
WHEN: Sunday, March 5th, 3 PM
WHAT: Tufts Wind Ensemble Concert. Williams College Symphonic Winds will join the Tufts Wind Ensemble for this Sunday afternoon concert. The featured work will be a Movement for Rosa composed by Mark Camphouse in honor of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.
WHERE: Cohen Auditorium, Talbot Ave., Tufts University, Medford.

ALL CONCERTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT AT 617-627-3564 or CHECK OUT THE WEBPAGE.

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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Eric Galm is currently researching material for his dissertation, which focuses on the use of the berimbau (musical bow) in contemporary popular and classical Brazilian music genres. He is a finalist for the 2000
Fulbright grant competition, and was a Fulbright alternate in 1999. Last semester he taught a Samba drumming ensemble at Trinity College in Hartford, and is currently teaching ensemble and academic courses at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic. His Samba drumming ensemble "Sambatucada" recently released its debut CD, and is in current airplay rotation on Boston-area radio stations.

Hankus Netsky (Wesleyan Ph.D candidate, faculty, New England Conservatory) delivered his paper on Three Twentieth Century Jewish Musicians from Poland at AMS in October and SEM in November. He performed with his Klezmer Conservatory Band at Avery Fisher Hall, New Jersey State Performing Arts Center, Toronto's Ashkenaz Festival, Italy's Ancona Festival, the Ford Center in North York, Ontario, and at five colleges in West Virginia. He was artistic director for "A Taste of Chanukah," featuring Theodore Bikel, seen this past December on PBS, and released as a Rounder CD.

Mike Heffley's dissertation "Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Identity,Improvisation, and Idiom in _Freie Musik Produktion_," a study of theBerlin-based new-and-improvised music production and recording concern called FMP, has been submitted to degree committee chair Anthony Braxtonand the rest of his committee. Mike is currently sending proposals to publishers for a book version; those interested in this study and/or itssubject can read a copy of the book proposal at Mike's website.

Mike also has a long look at New York pianist Borah Bergman coming out in the magazine *signal to noise* in the Spring; and is currently working on a book about the music of Korean composer/improviser Jin hi Kim, also shopping for its publisher. He's also looking for work--part-time, temporary, freelance, fulltime--in publishing or related professional contexts, to support his less immediate quests. Drop him a line if you have
any useful suggestions to that end... [ed. note - you're not alone, Mike]

Doctoral student Joseph Getter has been teaching Music in World Culture courses at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven since last September, and continues to teach Karnatak music at Wesleyan as T. Viswanathan's assistant; they are organizing an expanded Navaratri festival of Indian Music and Dance for September 2000. In the summer of 1999, Joseph assisted I. M. Harjito in teaching Javanese Gamelan to high school students at the Center for Creative Youth, a program of the Connecticut Capital Region Education Council and Wesleyan University. Joseph's dissertation will be on music in the cinema of India, with a focus on representations of a globalizing Indian culture in songs from films. He recently appeared as clarinet soloist with the Wesleyan Orchestra in the premiere of a piece by minimalist Wes. student composer Scott Wilson.
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WHEATON COLLEGE
Matthew Allen, Julie Searles and family have relocated to New England after teaching at the Univ. of Oklahoma for the past four years. Matthew is now on the music faculty at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. Searles & Allen have just released their 2nd CD of original compositions and Brasilian popular music, "Time & Again", in collaboration with Mexican percussionist Armando Rivera. The trio completed a 16-performance tour of Oklahoma during January 2000 under the auspices of the Oklahoma State Arts Council touring program. They will appear on the WAMC (Albany, NY) public radio show "Dancing on the Air" the evening of March 8. Matthew's latest article "A 'Self-Adopted Latin': Cole Porter and Caribbean Music" will appear later this year in "'S Wonderful! 'S Marvelous! An American Popular Song Reader", edited by Allen Forte and Ann Sears (Greenwood Press).

WORLDFEST @ WHEATON
presents the first annual Wheaton Mardi Gras & Carnaval Concert Music of Brasil
Julie Searles - Voice and percussion
Matthew Allen - Guitar and voice
Armando Rivera - Drums and percussion
with special guest appearance by the Wheaton World Music Ensemble
Cole Memorial Chapel
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
Tuesday, March 7th, 7:30 PM
FREE and open to the public
Bring your dancing shoes and come celebrate the release of Searles & Allen's new CD "Time & Again"

DIRECTIONS TO WHEATON: From Boston, take I-95 south to I-495 east/south (or from Providence, I-95 north to I-495 east/south). Once on I-495 east/south, take the first exit, Route 140 south, to Norton. At the "T" junction with Route 123 in Norton, go left. Make your first left at the flashing light into the parking lot. All Worldfest events are on the Wheaton campus, within 2 minutes walk from the parking lot.

Upcoming Worldfest events spring 2000

• Evening of Celtic Music and Dance:
  Friday March 31st, 8 pm, Watson Auditorium
  Sheila Falls-Keohane, fiddle
  Aine Minogue, Celtic harp
  Skip Healy, Irish flute
  Noel Scott, button accordion
  Mance Grady, bodhr·n
  Flynn Cohen, guitar
  Irish Step Dancers from the Hansen-Keohane School of Irish Dance, West Roxbury, Massachusetts
  
• "Film South Asia": Festival of South Asian Documentaries
  April 3, 4,and 5, 7pm, Science Center Auditorium
  (for this event contact Bruce Owens, Anthropology Dept., 508.286.3659)
  
• Nigerian Dance Performance:
  Thursday April 13, 7:30 pm, Balfour-Hood Atrium
  Nigerian Student Dance Group, Boston
  

All Worldfest programs are free and open to the public
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POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Trinity College
Trinity College is now accepting applications for a one-year replacement position as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music. The Department seeks an ethnomusicologist with an emphasis in Latin American music. The successful candidate will be a strong teacher who will direct "Salsafication", the Latin Music Ensemble, and teach three courses: the World Music survey, a course in her/his area of specialization, and music fundamentals. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applications will be reviewed beginning April 1, 2000; the deadline for applications is April 15, 2000. Classes begin August 30, 2000. Applicants should send a letter, a curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference to:

Douglas B. Johnson Chair, Department of Music
Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106-3100
Telephone 860/297-5122
Email: douglas.johnson@trincoll.edu

Trinity College is a four-year, private liberal-arts institution in an >enviable metropolitan location, equidistant from Boston and New York. The College offers a music major and student performing opportunities including concert choir, Latin American music ensemble, jazz ensemble, chamber music, musical theater, and chapel choir. The city of Hartford boasts such cultural activities as a professional symphony, opera, ballet, theater, new-music groups, and jazz clubs. Trinity College is actively committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. Applications from women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged.

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
A Tenure track position in redesigned music program at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, a Ph.D. or DMA with a focus in Ethnomusicology required. Candidates should have expertise in the music of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as the ability to teach the musics of Asia and other cultures.

Review of applications will begin April 15, 2000. Applications will be accepted until position is filled. UMass Dartmouth is an EEO/AA employer.

Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, transcripts, at least 3 letters of recommendation, and a tape demonstrating world music proficiency to:

Dr. Eleanor Carlson
Music Department
UMass Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
No. Dartmouth, MA  02747
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